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Monday, November 3, 2014

Playing the Balancing-It-All Game & cover reveal for BECAUSE YOU EXIST by Tiffany Truitt

Hey everyone! Happy Monday and start of November. It's going to be a good month! I mean, there's plenty of pumpkin pie in this month, so what's not to love? :) And don't forget, there's some good stuff still up for grabs on my release day giveaway, so swing by and enter if you have a sec. And of course, An Absence of Light is on sale (hint, hint!).

So, yeah, today's post is going to be short, because let's be honest here: I've got WAY too much on my plate. I feel like it's Thanksgiving already and I've got so many awesome dishes passing me by and I just can't help myself when it comes to taking just a little bit more. But then my plate looks a little like a small mountain of food, haha! You all know what I'm taking about (right?). The trouble is everything that's going on is so awesome and it's been a blast, but wow, I'm feeling a little overwhelmed at times.

Between, revising a novel that I seriously want to spend all my time on (I'm in love with it, plain and simple), teaching a overly large course load (thanks, University of Montana, for paying me less than minimum wage to teach more than anyone else in my department--way to make a girl feel special), marketing, and job interviews, let alone the regular other stuff I do (run the writing group for the library, manage my grad students, force myself to get to the gym so I don't go officially crazy, and spend time with that husband person), I'm really, really looking forward to Thanksgiving break. Anyhow, one of these days I'll figure out how to manage it all--or just take a healthier portion size! Still, it's been fun overindulging in the goodness lately--I certainly can't complain about that!

How about you: ever felt like your plate is overly full? :)
And how about a really beautiful cover to round out this post? Tiffany Truitt's new book looks awesome!! Preorder: Amazon: Limitless Publishing

Life is good for LOGAN MIDDLETON.

He’s quarterback of the Shepherd High football team, nephew of the town’s most successful lawyer, and boyfriend of Jenna Maples, a girl who has finally agreed to take their relationship to the next level. But nothing good lasts forever.

With only a few minutes of last period English left between him and a weekend alone with Jenna, Logan blacks out. When he awakens, he finds himself in a future where Shepherd High lies in ruins, nothing is what it seems, and everyone he loves is dead.

Logan is a shifter.

Chosen to travel through time, it’s up to him to figure out how to stop the terrible events that claimed his once perfect life. Of course, all of this might be easier if he wasn’t paired with the one girl who’d rather see him dead than help him, JOSEPHINE.

A girl he tormented during childhood. Strong-willed with biting wit, who lives in the shadows. Tough and dark, Jo is Shepherd High’s most notorious outcast and Logan’s opposite in every way.

Together the two must overcome their many differences to figure out why they’ve been selected for such an overwhelming task, and who selected them in the first place.

The cover to Because You Exist is stunning. I always feel overwhelmed, Meradeth. I have two genres to balance and sometimes, one suffers more than the other. Lately, I've been letting life's moments ease my stress by learning to relax and have downtime with the love of my life. We only live once and we can't let the anxiety of our author work take away from us enjoying the moment. I love writing and I love spending time with kids during my author visits. But social media can be a real pain and I've learned we simply can't do it all!I hope you find some balance. It sounds like you have a lot on your plate! Your students are lucky to have such a hard working and inspiring author teaching them.

You're doing GREAT with your blog tour. I'm seeing it everywhere. Congratulations!!! Release time is always so stressful, but it calms down soon enough. I think it's important to remember to enjoy it as much as you can!

TRAVELERS

An Absence of Light

Surrender the Sky

The Chemistry of Fate

Colors Like Memories

About Me

I am the author of COLORS LIKE MEMORIES, THE CHEMISTRY OF FATE, and SURRENDER THE SKY, AN ABSENCE OF LIGHT, and TRAVELERS! In the real world I do my best to teach students about the awesomeness that is anthropology. I also sequence dead people's DNA (for fun!).